Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, was the protagonist of a controversy in her country after, during a private conversation, calling a group of feminists “fucking idiots” who had interrupted the show of an actor who was facing a rape charge in 2021 archived by French justice.
“If any damn idiots come out, “We’re going to evict them.”we hear Brigitte Macron say her support for comedian Ary Abittan, according to a video published this Monday by the heart information site. public.
Abittan, 51, saw his show last Saturday at the Folies Bergère in Paris interrupted by activists belonging to the feminist collective #NousToutes. The activists They shouted “rapist of Abittan” and they wore masks bearing the image of the actor and the word “rapist”.
The comedian was accused of rape by a young woman at the end of 2021, but French justice definitively closed the case in January of this year.
The day after this incident, Brigitte Macron, accompanied by her youngest daughter, Tiphaine, spoke behind the scenes of the theater with Abittan, probably without knowing that they were being filmed. “I’m scared,” the actor began by saying. The Frenchwoman then tried to reassure him by responding that They would expel these “fucking idiots”especially if “they’re masked bandits”. Afterwards, the criticism of Brigitte Macron was not long in coming.
Sarah Legrain, deputy of the main left-wing party, La Francia Insumisa (LFI), stressed on social networks that the first lady “The insults mobilized feminists” and denounced that a file in the trial against Abittan “does not cover the speech and medical leave of a woman”. In explanations published in the French press, sources close to Brigitte Macron clarified that there was only “a criticism of the radical method” used by certain activists in the first lady’s remarks.
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